World would be a better place

David Bouck’s letter (“Secular humanism is our de facto religion,” Nov. 14) laments that,“Secular humanism is our de facto religion.” If that were so, the world would be a better place, for the goal of the secular humanist is to be, “Good without God.”

The Humanist Fellowship of San Diego’s website states that their aim is to, “bring about a progressive society where being good without gods is an accepted way to live life” (www.hfsd.info/).

If you share this humanist philosophy, you will find a local group to suit your needs at the San Diego Coalition of Reason web site: http://unitedcor.org/san-diego/page/home .

Furthermore, Bouck irrationally implies that the American voter’s rejection of candidates backed by the religious right must signal the coming of the “end times.” Instead, secular humanists see more American voters turning against greed and undue power, and toward the values listed in secular humanism’s “Ten Commitments”: altruism, caring for the world around us, critical thinking, empathy, ethical development, global awareness, human rights, peace and social justice, responsibility, and service and participation.

We see the 2012 election results signaling not the end of times, but the beginning of a more just and caring society, right here on planet Earth.